This week in Washington(25 images)

President Donald Trump gives his first televised address from the Oval Office, Rep. Mike Thompson introduces gun safety legislation and the partial federal government shutdown continues the week of January 7, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Members and supporters of the National Air Controllers Association and other aviation industry associations protest the partial federal government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Congress and President Trump remain at a budget stalemate as Democrats refuse to provide Trump with the $5.7 billion funding request for a southern border wall. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

The Federal Aviation Administration closed its training academy in Oklahoma City because of the shutdown, which has slowed down training and placed recent graduates on furlough. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House for a day trip to the southern border on Thursday. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

Trump walks to Marine One as he departs the White House. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

Vice President Mike Pence makes remarks to the press as, from left to right, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., listen after meeting with Trump and the Democratic leadership. Trump walked out of the meeting and called it a "waste of time." Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI | License Photo

Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland (C) makes remarks as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California (R), Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York (L) and Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois listen as they depart the West Wing of the White House after meeting with Trump. Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI | License Photo

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (R) and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer speak on the government shutdown as they are joined by furloughed government workers, on the 19th day of the government shutdown, at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. The government remains shutdown as the White House and Congress fail to reach an agreement on government funding and President Trump's request for $5 billion for a southern border wall. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell as he speaks on the government shutdown. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence speak to the media before their lunch with Senate Republicans. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

Workers move Adas Israel synagogue on Wednesday one block south to its new location, where it be incorporated into the Capital Jewish Museum. The 142-year-old structure is D.C.'s oldest synagogue. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

The structure was built in 1876. This is the third time it has had to move, first in 1969 to make room for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s headquarters and then in 2017 for the construction of Capitol Crossing. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

Trump participates in a signing ceremony for anti-human trafficking legislation in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. The legislation will renew programs that make federal resources available to human trafficking survivors and establish new prevention and prosecution initiatives. It was a bipartisan measure that passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Photo by Olivier Douliery/UPI | License Photo

The president acknowledges his daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump (C) during the signing ceremony. Photo by Olivier Douliery/UPI | License Photo

The president speaks to the nation in his first prime-time address from the Oval Office on Tuesday. The speech centered on security along the U.S. border with Mexico and his demand to build a wall, which is the issue causing the government shutdown. Photo by Carlos Barria/UPI | License Photo

Trump says his border proposal includes a request for technology to recognize various types of contraband, including drugs and weapons, at the border, more agents and judges to process lawful migration requests, humanitarian assistance and medical support. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

Pelosi (R) and Schumer pose for photographs after delivering a televised response to Trump's national address about border security at the U.S. Capitol. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/UPI | License Photo

"The president is rejecting these bipartisan bills that would reopen the government over his obsession with forcing American taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on an expensive and ineffective wall -- a wall he always promised Mexico would pay for," Pelosi said. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/UPI | License Photo

Giffords (L) watches as Thompson introduces HR8. The bill will require background checks on the sale of any firearm and expand existing background checks for the sale of guns online, at stores and at gun shows. Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI | License Photo

Pelosi said, "We are blessed to be with survivors of that attack and survivors of so many other acts of gun violence today. But today is also a day of action." Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI | License Photo